About this project

$6,417

pledged of $5,500 goal

210

backers

The Bully’s Bully is an all-age adventure webcomic that launched in January of this year. When we make our goal we plan to print the first two chapters, which combined are 90 pages long, and completely done. In addition to the first two chapters, the Kickstarter book will include two brand new exclusive stories that will only appear in this book. These special stories will not be featured on the Bully’s Bully site or anywhere else. With the two stories pulled from www.bullysbully.com, the two new exclusive stories, a bunch of behind the scenes material, as well as some impressive guest art, our final page count will be over 150 pages!

How it came to be:

I first experienced bullying in elementary school. Then again in junior
high. Oh, and for good measure, once more in high school. It wasn’t fun
for me, and I suspect it wasn’t that much fun for my bullies either. But
none of those encounters infuriated me as much as when my daughter
spent two years of elementary school with two different bullies. Though
both situations were eventually resolved as civilly as possible, the
seeds for the Bully’s Bully were firmly planted. As a parent, my first
instinct was to approach the bullies myself. Fortunately I knew better.
Instead, I decided to use a tool I hoped I could be far more effective with,
than direct intervention. My pencil. I immediately contacted my buddy
James Taylor, who’s also an artist, and told him about the project.
Without hesitation, he too was on board. It turns out that he had
encountered his fair share of bullies in school, too.

The Story

The
Bully’s Bully is an ongoing “wordless” webcomic about a young girl who,
from birth, has felt absolute empathy with bullying victims. Through this ability to experience the pain, agony,
and desperation of the people (and animals), “The Bully’s Bully” (or
B.B. for short) can find those who’ve been singled out for cruelty.
Sure, she could buckle under the empathic pain that might reduce many
grown superheroes to tears, but our girl transforms all those negative
feelings into action. She selflessly aids anyone—kids and adults alike—who
have been targeted by bullies.

While
the primary focus is to tell fun and engaging stories, the Bully’s
Bully aims to inspire anyone entangled in bullying, even bullies
themselves. Having experienced bullying, as well as seeing those we love
fall victim, our hope is that through the adventures of B.B., those
living under a daily cloud of fear, can use our comic as a way to draw
attention to a situation they might have previously felt impossible to
get free of.

The Book: What’s the Breakdown?

The goal of the kickstarter is to gather the funds to print the comic from the web into a physical paperback book, along with extra content. With bonus stories, original concept art, and some guest art, the entire book will be 6.625” x10.25” and at least 150 pages, possibly much more if we make stretch goals which will allow the creation of some exciting all new content.

The $5500 we're asking for would go towards paying for the initial print
run of the book, as well as shipping
costs for rewards. About 10% of that goes toward Kickstarter and Amazon
fees, too. Anything leftover will go toward miscellaneous costs like
replacing lost or damaged books, and packing supplies.

Rewards

While the star of the show here is the 150 plus page book,
we're also offering a number of other cool rewards including bookmarks, original sketches, opportunities to do your own story,
original art pages, book bundles for our comic book retailer
friends, and exclusive prints like the ones below:

WHY ARE THERE NO WORDS?

Stories
have been told without words since the first human picked up a spent
coal from a fire and began marking the cave wall. Sure, we’ve come a few
thousand years since then, and we have some amazing technology, but the
basics keep coming back time and again. Think “Tom and Jerry,” Disney’s “Fanatasia,"“Mr. Bean,”“Owly,” "The Artist," or the great Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. These examples illustrate rivalries, humor, romance and much more, while using few if any words in presenting their themes.

Specific
to Bully’s Bully, we wanted to make a comic that was truly open to all.
Neither language nor literacy would impede any reader from enjoying the
adventures of B.B., nor would it hinder learning lessons of acceptance,
empathy and compassion. To that end, we created a comic which
transcends educational and language barriers in a medium that’s truly
accessible to almost everyone.

Risks and challenges

The risks for this project are very low. The story artwork is 100% complete. We have ample time to finish any extras in time for a Spring 2014 release. Barring any unforeseen life changing incidents we're definitely on track to finish the book with time to spare.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $500 or more
About $500

TELL YOUR STORY. You can write your own 5 page Bully's Bully story that we'll draw and put on the site, and you get credited as writer. And if we do a second Bully's Bully book, your story and credits will be in it too. Also get everything from the $35 tier. (Story must be all-ages)

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $1,000 or more
About $1,000

TELL YOUR LONGER STORY. You can write your own 10 page Bully's Bully story that we'll draw and put on the site, and you get credited as writer. And if we do a second Bully's Bully book, your story and credits will be in it too. Also get everything from the $35 tier. (Story must be all ages)

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $1,500 or more
About $1,500

WE'LL DRAW YOUR STORY (ink) - You provide us with a script or synopsis featuring your characters, and we'll draw and letter 12 pages of b/w comic art for you to use as you see fit. Publish a comic you wrote, use it as a unique gift, pop a question to that certain someone...whatever you want. Not only will you receive digital files to publish, but you'll also get the 12 original pages of art. And of course, everything from the $35 tier.